bronze
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Italian Elisa Longo Borghini edged out world time-trial champion Marlen Reusser to take bronze.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
But now, I seriously doubted anyone was going to hand me a bronze statue for the way I yelled at my kids for not finishing their chicken nuggets.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
“It feels like a violation,” said Tustin Mayor Austin Lumbard, whose city has also been the setting for bronze thefts in recent months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The same individual also made off with four bronze placards from the benches at nearby Patriot Point, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Each day his hammer rang on bronze until his rock anvil broke, or his tongs bent, or he ran out of firewood.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Our critic noted “This is the largest presentation of Giacometti’s plaster sculptures in the U.S.—and for those who know only his bronzes, a few of which are included in the show, it is revelatory.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
She won a silver and two bronzes at the 2019 Worlds before retiring in 2021.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Russia topped the medal table with 13 golds, 13 silvers and seven bronzes, while Mexico and Mongolia competed at a Winter Paralympics for the first time.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
The 41-year-old mother had won silver and bronzes at the past four Winter Games and wondered if her best shot at becoming an Olympic champion was behind her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
The Chola bronzes, cast in the eleventh century, include several different incarnations of the god Shiva.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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It is a dish born of abundance and branding — creamy, bronzed, a little breathless.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026
She has shared a before-and-after with her 59,000 followers: Her face, once splotchy with some acne scarring, is now clear, bronzed and glowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
It arrives in a thick, architectural slab, edges bronzed, interior plush but disciplined.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
From full-body taxidermy to partial mementos — skulls, bronzed hearts or freeze-dried paws, for example — such services provide closure in ways that, clients say, traditional burials or urns cannot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
He was tall and lanky with a bronzed, sharp-boned face; his green eyes were twinkly, like he’d just gotten a joke someone had told him earlier.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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“They’ve had a curated set of items that they’ve gone after, so whether that be in blushes or in lips or in highlighter or bronzing categories, they’re seeing strength across the board,” Fields said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Not long ago, the “Mar-a-Lago face” seemed inescapable — a viral shorthand for an exaggerated cosmetic aesthetic marked by heavy bronzing, sharply sculpted cheeks, overly plumped lips and high-gloss polish.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
Bahder, whose expertise traditionally involves detecting lethal bronzing in palm trees, explained that the fundamental process of molecular testing is similar across different organisms, with the main difference being the DNA sequence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Hyposecretion of the corticosteroids can cause Addison’s disease, which may result in bronzing of the skin, hypoglycemia, and low electrolyte levels in the blood.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Men with household furniture heaped camelwise on their shoulders trudged stoically over the rough cobbles, with the flame of the fire bronzing their faces into the outlines of a gargoyle.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum
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